From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Cui, Lili" <lili.cui@intel.com>
Cc: "Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>,
"ccoutant@gmail.com" <ccoutant@gmail.com>,
"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Support APX GPR32 with rex2 prefix
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:24:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c6d2661-fae5-46ad-aba7-14bad27a6b9f@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR11MB560076F39C2F174E79F9D5C39E8CA@SJ0PR11MB5600.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On 14.12.2023 11:13, Cui, Lili wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 5:22 PM
>>
>> On 10.11.2023 10:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 10.11.2023 08:11, Cui, Lili wrote:
>>>> Here are some cases:
>>>> 0: 41 0f a8 rex.B push %gs ---> rex.B was not consumed, rex
>> will print it.
>>>> 0: d5 01 0f a8 {rex2} push %gs ----> Without egpr, we need to
>> print {rex2} for it. But we can't see anything about REX2.B3 from the prefix.
>>>> 4: d5 19 58 pop %r24 ----> There is egpr, we know it uses
>> rex2 prefix. We cannot see the information of the lower 4 bits of rex2
>>>>
>>>> It is not helpful to judge rex_used in rex2.
>>>
>>> So: REX2, like REX, is a prefix for legacy encodings. Therefore my
>>> view is that it ought to be treated similarly to REX in the
>>> disassembler (I'm fine to avoid the introduction of a myriad of
>>> rex2... [no figure braces] prefixes in gas). Just like in the first
>>> line of what you present above for the REX.B case, I'd expect the same
>>> for REX2. E.g., taking the 2nd line from above
>>>
>>> 0: d5 01 0f a8 {rex2.B3} push %gs
>>>
>>> An alternative, matching your intention of treating REX2 more like
>>> EVEX, would be to (subsequently, not right away) do away with rex.B
>>> and alike as well, and only print {rex} in that case as well. Such an
>>> intention would then want mentioning in the description (and
>>> eventually carrying out). The main difference between REX/REX2 and
>>> VEX/EVEX, as I view it (and as would be speaking against this
>>> alternative approach), is that in VEX/EVEX it is kind of normal that
>>> certain bits are deliberately ignored (and might be set either way -
>>> see gas'es command line options actually allowing to drive the values for
>> some of such ignored fields).
>>> REX/REX2, otoh, shouldn't normally specify unused bits, much like
>>> other legacy prefixes aren't expected to be present for no reason (and
>>> hence are explicitly printed when present).
>>
>> However, irrespective of what I said above, please feel free to go ahead with
>> the simplified approach, to allow making progress. I'd like to have H.J.'s input
>> on how to achieve overall consistency, and we can make further adjustments
>> later on. But please make sure you actually mention this aspect in the
>> description of the patch.
>
> We are going to use {rex2 0xXX}.
So that's going to be {rex2} alone as equivalent to {rex} and {rex2 0xXX}
as equivalent to rex (no braces)?
Independent of that I'm of course curious how you're meaning to deal with
- collisions with REX2 bits already set for other reasons, and
- yet more specifically control over REX2.M.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-02 11:29 [PATCH v2 0/8] Support Intel APX EGPR Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 1/8] Support APX GPR32 with rex2 prefix Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 17:05 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-03 6:20 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-03 13:05 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-03 14:19 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-06 15:20 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-06 16:08 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 8:16 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-07 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 15:31 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-07 15:43 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 15:53 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-06 15:02 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 8:06 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-07 10:20 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 14:32 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-07 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-06 15:39 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-09 8:02 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-09 13:27 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 15:22 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-10 7:11 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-10 9:14 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-10 9:21 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-10 12:38 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-14 10:13 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-18 15:24 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2023-12-18 16:23 ` H.J. Lu
2023-11-10 9:47 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-10 9:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-10 12:05 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-10 12:35 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-13 0:18 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 2/8] Created an empty EVEX_MAP4_ sub-table for EVEX instructions Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 3/8] Support APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 4/8] Add tests for " Cui, Lili
2023-11-08 9:11 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-15 14:56 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-16 9:17 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-16 15:34 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-16 16:50 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-17 12:42 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-17 14:38 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-22 13:40 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 5/8] Support APX NDD Cui, Lili
2023-11-08 10:39 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-20 1:19 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-08 11:13 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-20 12:36 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-20 16:33 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-22 7:46 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-22 8:47 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-22 10:45 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-23 10:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-23 12:14 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-24 6:56 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Support Intel APX EGPR Cui, Lili
2023-12-07 8:17 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-07 8:33 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 9:37 ` [PATCH 5/8] Support APX NDD Jan Beulich
2023-11-20 1:33 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-20 8:19 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-20 12:54 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-20 16:43 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 6/8] Support APX Push2/Pop2 Cui, Lili
2023-11-08 11:44 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-08 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-22 5:48 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-22 8:53 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-22 12:26 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 9:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 7/8] Support APX NDD optimized encoding Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 10:36 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-10 5:43 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-10 9:54 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-14 2:28 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-14 10:50 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-15 2:52 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-15 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-15 2:59 ` [PATCH][v3] " Hu, Lin1
2023-11-15 9:34 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-17 7:24 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-17 9:47 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-20 3:28 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-20 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-14 2:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] Reorder APX insns in i386.tbl Hu, Lin1
2023-11-14 11:20 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-15 1:49 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-15 8:52 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-17 3:27 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 8/8] Support APX JMPABS Cui, Lili
2023-11-09 12:59 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-14 3:26 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-14 11:15 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-24 5:40 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-24 7:21 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-27 2:16 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-27 8:03 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-27 8:46 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-27 8:54 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-27 9:03 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-27 10:32 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-04 7:33 ` Hu, Lin1
2023-11-02 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Support Intel APX EGPR Jan Beulich
2023-11-03 16:42 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-06 7:30 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-06 14:20 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-06 14:44 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-06 16:03 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-06 16:10 ` Jan Beulich
2023-11-07 1:53 ` Cui, Lili
2023-11-07 10:11 ` Jan Beulich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-09-19 15:25 [PATCH 0/8] [RFC] " Cui, Lili
2023-09-19 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/8] Support APX GPR32 with rex2 prefix Cui, Lili
2023-09-21 15:27 ` Jan Beulich
2023-09-27 15:57 ` Cui, Lili
2023-09-21 15:51 ` Jan Beulich
2023-09-27 15:59 ` Cui, Lili
2023-09-28 8:02 ` Jan Beulich
2023-10-07 3:27 ` Cui, Lili
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